Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Abstraction

According to Wikipedia - Abstraction is the process of reducing the information content of a concept, typically in order to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose. For example, abstracting a premiership football to a ball retains only the information on general ball attributes and behavior. Similarly, abstracting an emotional state to happiness reduces the amount of information conveyed about the emotional state.

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Note: This post was originally posted on my blog at http://www.adaptivelearningonline.net